Category: Germany

We all live and were born in a nation state. The passports that we have (or don’t have) limit or grant us our freedom to move. Even if we are ideologically against nation states and borders, they are still realities in our lives. People often connect stereotypes with countries they don’t know personally. At TQU we want to challenge these stereotypes and show different artists, activists, events etc. that are all part of the global queer community, and much more diverse than people might expect!

Event Description Final Girls Berlin Film Festival showcases horror cinema that’s directed, written, or produced by women*. We are committed to creating space for female voices and visions, whether monstrous or heroic or some...

Text: Jane Flett | Illustration: Nami NakanoThat was the summer I finally grew into myself, fitting into my skin like a hand in a tight cotton glove. All summer long, I ran my hands across my life, marvelling. I could feel the neat, tucked seams. The stitches.

About the artwork: The presented body of work, collectively titled ‘Now You Can Go Home’ is an ongoing photographic project from past three years and has been shot in different spaces that the artist...

About the artist: I am an illustrator and graphic designer in Berlin. In the past years I designed websites, flyer, poster, record covers, t-shirts etc. for queer/ feminist projects, artists & musicians and festivals...

About the artist: I’m an artist from Canada currently residing in Berlin. Attracted to anything queer, feminist, sensual and obscene, I like to convey these ideas in portraits and figurative works. Art history also...

About the artist: Alex Giegold is a queer photographer and artist resident in Berlin. With her work she is questioning power structures in visual culture. She systematically engages in phenomena of social normalization. She...

About the artists: Alex Giegold and Tomka Weiß have been working in the field of photography and installation art as an artistic duo since 2011. Giegold & Weiß picture different perspectives on body politics,...

About the artwork: The focus of my painting is movement and queer-feminist body politics. Bodies are products of social norms, inherent in power and hierarchies, economic relations, body politics. The aim of my work...

About the artist: I like plastic and synthetic fabric. I like cutting a trash bag to transform it into a garland. I like listening to lyrical music (with violin and other classical instruments) like...

by Anna Geary-MeyerMy first job out of university is as a personal assistant to a web designer in Berlin, where I moved because I didn’t know where else to go. The web designer answers my application email in all lower-case…

SFSEX SFSEX – Studio for Subjective Experiences Source: sfsex.de/ SFSEX – Studio for Subjective Experiences is a temporary Offspace in Essen, Germany. Over the course of two months three exhibitions will explore themes of...

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Berlin Story – The New Yorker Alex Ross on a forgotten legacy of fin-de-siècle Berlin. “The title of the chapter, “The German Invention of Homosexuality,” telegraphs a principal argument of the book: although same-sex...

by Corinna CliffEleanor walked up the broken pavement towards the old school, focussing on her feet. Sweat was running down her arms as she balanced two buckets of soapy water in each hand and a bag with brushes on her shoulder…